UNITED
NATIONS, April
15
-- When Norway
crows about
the UN
Security
Council
renovation,
there should
and will be
critique of
the reduction
in
press access.
But those
chiming in
late on this
issue should
wonder:
how was it
allowed to
happen, and
who's to
blame?

At
the south
entrance to
the Security
Council, the
area near the
window
which used to
be for the
press is no
more. And
X-ray machines
have
been
installed,
further
delaying
access to the
stakeout area.
There
is, for now,
no table to
work at. These
are all
losses.

Journalists'
fair
access to the
UN has until
now supposedly
been handled
between
the UN
Department of
Public
Information
and the UN
Correspondents
Association,
now known as
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance.